Friday, December 21, 2007

Dissatisfied because he had not had a happy Christmas, the police say Adam Heckenmuller of 516 Eleventh Avenue last night attacked his wife Margaret and a boarder, Lawrence Stanchorn, with a bread knife, and stabbed them both. Neither was seriously hurt.

Heckenmuller was sitting in his home, the police say, and heard his wife and the boarder talking about the happy Christmas they had had. Heckenmuller had not been happy, and, according to the police, he picked up a large bread knife and attacked them.

Answers.com supplies the following additional information on Louis/Lewis Physioc:

Lewis PhysiocBorn: Jun 30, 1879 in Columbus, South Carolina Died: Jan 16, 1972 in Los Angeles, California Occupation: Cinematographer Active: teens, '30s Major Genres: Drama, Romance Career Highlights: Peck's Bad Girl, The No-Gun Man, Bab's Diary First Major Screen Credit: Bab's Diary (1917)BiographyA graduate of the College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts in Raleigh, NC, American cinematographer Lewis H. Physioc began his screen career as scenic artist and technical director of Cameraphone, an early sound system. Also at various times associated with Edison and, like his younger brother Wray Physioc, with Pathé Freres, Physioc later became a cameraman and cinematographer with Famous Players (then later Paramount), Goldwyn, and Selznick, photographing such films as Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), The Glorious Lady (1919), and Upstairs and Down (1919). In the 1920s, he functioned as cinematographer for producer Harry Garson and, in the sound era, worked extensively with visual effects, helping to develop the technique known as matte painting. Physioc remained in the film industry at least through the 1940s. Confusingly, he has at various times been billed Lewis H. Physioc, Louis J. Physioc, and Lewis W. Physioc; his official bio reads Lewis W. Physioc. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

ARTNET.COM has several examples of Physioc's canvases, which were sold at Christie's auction house in October of 2007.